Packaging

The Card

The GeForce RTX 4080 Super FE looks exactly like the RTX 4080 FE, except for the color theme. I have to applaud NVIDIA's choice for an all-black design—it really looks fantastic. The card uses the through-flow concept that ensures air goes through the card and out the top, where it can be exhausted by a case fan.


Dimensions of the card are 31.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 2131 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 60 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 1.4a ports and one HDMI 2.1a (same as Ampere and same as non-Super Ada).

NVIDIA introduced the concept of dual NVDEC and NVENC Codecs with the Ada Lovelace architecture. This means there are two independent sets of hardware-accelerators; so you can encode and decode two streams of video in parallel or one stream at double the FPS rate. The new 8th Gen NVENC now accelerates AV1 encoding, besides HEVC. You also get an "optical flow accelerator" unit that is able to calculate intermediate frames for videos, to smooth playback. The same hardware unit is used for frame generation in DLSS 3.


All GeForce RTX 4080 and 4080 Super graphics cards use the 12+4 pin ATX 12VHPWR connector, an adapter cable is included in the box.


I really love the way they designed the Super logo on the card—it's embossed, yet still perfectly black.

Teardown

Disassembly is similar to earlier Founders Edition graphics cards. First pop off the top cover, it's attached magnetically—great idea.


Now remove several Torx screws. With the back cover removed, we have to disconnect two flat-ribbon cables. Use your fingers where possible, instead of metal tools. Flip the connector latch up, then carefully pull the cable out. Remove the screws on the slot cover and you can remove the heatsink from the PCB.


NVIDIA has installed six heatpipes that move heat away from the GPU surface.


The cooler provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry, too.